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Regardless of which discipline or bitesport venue, people seem to fall into one of two catagories; either they feel it's important to apply tons of pressure to the dog to teach it to deal with it or ignore it; or they set up the scenarios to make the dog feel like he's invincible, trying to avoid anything that might trigger avoidance so that the dog can only experience success, which the dog should be able to pull confidence from should a more stressful situation arise in the future...
I've seen both training styles from members of the board, so hopefully we get a balanced debate. And let's try to avoid sitting on the fence on this one; I'm not necessarily talking about extremes in either scenario. This goes for both decoy and envirionmental pressure.
Simon
I've seen both training styles from members of the board, so hopefully we get a balanced debate. And let's try to avoid sitting on the fence on this one; I'm not necessarily talking about extremes in either scenario. This goes for both decoy and envirionmental pressure.
Simon